TY - BOOK ID - 145498959 TI - Early stages in the evolution of Mesopotamian civilization : Soviet excavations in northern Iraq AU - Yoffee, Norman AU - Clark, Jeffery J. PY - 2016 SN - 9780816532810 9780816513932 PB - Tucson : University of Arizona Press, DB - UniCat KW - Neolithikum UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145498959 AB - Between 1969 and 1980, Soviet archaeologists conducted excavations of Mesopotamian villages occupied from preagricultural times through the beginnings of early civilization. The results of their work were published primarily in Soviet journals and in the English-language journals Sumer and Iraq. This volume brings together translations of these Russian articles along with newly commissioned work to make the results of this research accessible for the first time to the Western world. In addition to eight articles available here for the first time in English, a concluding chapter by Norman Yoffee offers new insights on cultural interaction based on the research at hand. The research conducted by the Soviets helped transform our knowledge of the early post-Paleolithic prehistory of Mesopotamia. This volume marks an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the beginning of agriculture - and evolution of societies - in the ancient Near East ER -